The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.
Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present.
You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!
If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.
Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.
If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.
That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.
The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood.
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong. " 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so we all begin, determined to better our fathers' performances, knowing we can change the very nature of humanity, make it better, cleaner. But then daggers strike in the night, and peasants revolt, and all manner of atrocities become a necessity as breakfast. Only Princes believe in the greater good. Kings know there is only Reign, and all things may be committed in its holy name.
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt. . . It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.
Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.
Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
If [Boris Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.
A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.
Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt
